http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_060608_1.html"Back in 1997 Captain Paul Watson had the opportunity to sit down and speak with members of the Japanese delegation in Monaco.
Captain Watson asked whaling delegate Tadahiko Nakamura directly if he was concerned about the survival of the whales and would he like to have his children and grand-children see the whales.
His answer was shocking. "No," he said. "My duty is to my family, my country, and my company and that duty is to make as much profit as I can for them today. I am not concerned with future generations. They will have to find ways to survive just as we must find ways to survive today."
Captain Watson then asked if he was concerned that the whales would go extinct. "They may go extinct but that is not my concern. My concern is to realize the maximum profit from them before they do."
This echoes the sentiments of Andrew Behr, the owner of the pirate whaler Sierra, which Captain Watson rammed and disabled on July 16, 1979 and sank on February 6th, 1980."
Okay, I kinda posted an extra paragraph here, but I'm pretty sure that SSCS isn't going to prosecute. I just had to include the part about The Sierra (rest her soul).
December 2006...a faster boat, but the only ones there...what'll happen?
Gotta be honest...I smile when I think about it.
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